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Catch SportsDay On Air twice per week on Fox Sports Southwest, when Dallas Morning News experts discuss hot sports topics from the Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars, Rangers and colleges (check our TV listings for air times). Here are a few highlights from Thursday's episode featuring Kevin Sherrington and David Moore:

On who to watch for at Cowboys rookie minicamp this weekend:

Moore: “Well, long-term it’s going to be Travis Frederick, the first round pick who clearly they reached on to take at the end of the first. But they knew the other offensive lineman had gone, there was no one on their board who could have stepped in and helped in from Year 1. The thing is with this minicamp and really OTA’s, you won’t tell anything about the offensive linemen or defensive linemen until you get to training camp in Oxnard because they don’t go through this in pads so it’s really important what you see out of the skill players. I think the most intriguing will be their second round pick, Gavin Escobar, the tight end out of San Diego State because people here don’t know a lot about him. They’ve already talked about how their going to change their offense to go with two tight end sets. He’s going to be a big part of it. You want to be able to see what he can do, and you should get a sense of that from this camp.”

Sherrington: “The scrutiny is fair to Jerry Jones. It’s not fair to the players. They’ve got some good players here. If you look at this draft, who knows what happens to them in the end, but one of the things is the last couple of years Jerry has done a good job of getting players in the first couple of rounds of getting really productive players, but it falls off after that. I think for all the objections of Travis Frederick and Gavin Escobar going to high in the second round, there weren’t many arguments against the rest of the guys in the draft. Those all seemed to be pretty good picks. I think if they if they can get some production out of those guys, and I think Frederick walks right in on the job, then they’re going to be fine.”